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Thankfully, in the era of streaming wars, we have a countless amount of content to entertain us between the “pause it for a second please!” bathroom breaks and gossip sessions, which brings us to the perfect piece of entertainment for a GNI: the rom-com. In addition to all the classics, each streaming platform has been churning out some seriously amazing original content for us. Here are 20 of the best rom-coms to watch during your next girls night in and where to stream them:
1. Happiness For Beginners
Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes team up in this hilarious, wildnerness-based rom-com. Helen (Kemper) is escaping a bad breakup by joining a hiking group that’s planning to tackle the entire Connecticut stretch of the Appalachian trail. Little does she know that Jake (Grimes), her brother’s best friend, is also a part of the wilderness survival group. As the two interact with the wacky members of their team, they find themselves getting closer than they ever thought possible.
2. Ticket to Paradise
In Ticket to Paradise, A-listers Julia Roberts and George Clooney star as divorced parents who try to stop their daughter from marrying a seaweed farmer in Bali. They set out to sabotage the wedding and one-up the other in the process, but it’s clear that there is still something between them. Seeing their daughter so happy makes them wonder what went wrong with their marriage in the first place.
3. About Fate
Emma Roberts stars in a lot of my favorite rom-coms (starting with Aquamarine), but honestly, I think this is the best one yet. About Fate is about two strangers (Margot and Griffin) who believe in love but have never experienced it for themselves. On New Year’s Eve, fate interferes, putting them in an all-day mix of chaos and epic love stories.
4. Your Place or Mine
Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher starring in a rom-com together? What year is it? In all seriousness, Your Place or Mine will give you some serious rom-com nostalgia. Debbie and Peter are best friends, but they’re total opposites. While Debbie navigates life as a single mom, Peter lives a fast-paced single life in New York City. When they decide to swap places and lives for a week, they learn that a little change might be exactly what they both need.
5. Red, White, and Royal Blue
Romance meets international politics in one of the most highly anticipated book-to-movie rom-com adaptations in years. Alex Claremont-Diaz is the first son of the United States, and Prince Henry is a part of Britain’s Royal Family; when the two fall in love, they attempt to keep it a secret from their families and the media, to disastrious, hilarious, and heartwarming results.
6. Shotgun Wedding
Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) gather their loving yet difficult families for their destination wedding. When gunmen take everyone hostage, the ceremony gets put on hold, and they must figure out how to survive and save their loved ones in the process.
7. The Hating Game
Based on the novel of the same name by Sally Thorne, The Hating Game, is about Lucy Hutton and her cold, efficient work nemesis, Joshua Templeton. Their rivalry grows as they work to one-up the other in the workplace, but it gets more and more difficult as their attraction grows. Staring Lucy Hale, this movie adaptation is everything we hoped it would be and more.
8. A Perfect Pairing
In order to win over a major client, a wine executive from Los Angeles heads to an Australian sheep farm. When she runs into a rugged local who challenges her to get to work as a ranch hand, her plan to win over the client gets much more difficult. Victoria Justice and Adam Demos star in this movie, so not only is it a cute watch, the cast is easy on the eyes, too.
9. Love in the Villa
A newly single woman (played by Kat Graham) jets off to Italy on a solo trip, but when she arrives, her villa has been double-booked with a cynical (but sexy) British man. When neither of them is willing to go elsewhere, they make each other’s lives a living hell to see who will crack first and leave the villa. Throughout the chaos, they get to know each other and realize they don’t hate each other that much after all.
10. The People We Hate At The Wedding
Familiar faces Kristen Bell, Ben Platt, and Allison Janney star in this hilarious movie about a dysfunctional, separated family and the tension that has formed between them. As a chance to reconnect, Eloise, the estranged half-sister of Alice and Paul, invites her siblings to her British wedding. With multiple love-gone-wrong storylines in the mix, this movie keeps you on your toes until the very end to see if love prevails in both family and relationships.
11. Wedding Season
Pressured by their parents to get married, Asha and Ravi decide to fake date during a busy summer of weddings. Once the wedding season is over, they agree to go back to their normal lives. But the more time they spend together, the less they want to be apart. It’s a trope as old as time, but this movie does it right.
12. Someone Great
I want to shout it from the rooftops: Someone Great was one of the best movies to be released into the rom-com category! I truly enjoyed this movie so, so much (and have already watched it multiple times). It’s funny, heartfelt, diverse, and emotional in all the right ways. It’s not your typical rom-com, which makes me love it so much more. It is absolutely the perfect movie for a GNI—you’ll laugh, cry, and appreciate your girl squad that much more.
13. Set It Up
Set It Up is about two overworked assistants in the same building who develop a plan to set their bosses up with each other in an effort to get them off their backs for a bit and—you guessed it—also develop feelings for each other along the way. It’s fun, quirky, and feel-good! Plus, it’s set in New York City like all good romance movies are, so what’s not to love?
14. Always Be My Maybe
Childhood crushes who went on to lead very different lives reunite after a chance run-in and try to figure out if there is still a connection worth exploring 15 years later—or if their worlds are just too different. Starring comedian Ali Wong, you’re guaranteed to laugh until you cry and fall in love with the story of Sasha and Marcus.
15. When We First Met
In a Groundhog Day-style time warp, Noah (Adam Devine) relives the same night over and over, trying to make his best friend—who, in present day, is engaged to another man—fall in love with him instead of just seeing him as a friend.
16. The Perfect Date
Noah Centineo stars in yet another rom-com we love. In order to pay for college, Brooks creates an app that offers his services as a fake date. From avoiding going to a dance alone to getting parents off their back about dating, girls from all over town are paying him to stand by their side. It’s all fun and games until real feelings start to emerge with one of his fake dates.
17. Holidate
Gorgeous Emma Roberts (playing Sloane) and hunky Luke Bracey (playing Jackson) star in this light-hearted rom-com that isn’t just about finding a date for Christmas. Nope, the two decide to be each other’s date for every holiday of the year because let’s face it: Sometimes, it sucks to be alone at a holiday family gathering. Genius idea? Yes, but what will happen when they start to think about each other when it’s not a holiday?
18. Love at First Sight
When two strangers, Hadley and Oliver, meet at the airport, they have no idea that they’re about to fall for one another. However, when they’re seated next to each other on a seven-hour long flight, they spend those seven hours getting to know each other and realizing that they just might have found the perfect person. However, when Hadley unexpectedly loses Oliver’s phone number, she spends her entire visit to England attempting to find him again.
19. Desperados
If you loved Winston and Aly in New Girl, you have to watch Desperados. This is arguably one of the best moves for GNI because it is about three best friends on a mission. After Wesley thinks she’s getting ghosted, she sends a slew of mean drunk texts to the guy she is dating. It turns out, he ended up in an accident in Mexico and wasn’t ghosting her after all. The three girls head for Mexico to delete the texts from his phone before he can see them, but they won’t be able to do it without constantly running into a new handsome man, Sean.
20. No Hard Feelings
Jennifer Lawrence stars in this unbelievably funny rom-com in which she plays a broke Uber driver who has just lost her car. Desperate for a vehicle and determined to save her house, she agrees to date the high school son of a wealthy couple before he goes to college. What ensues is chaotic and hilarious as she attempts to win over a boy who seemingly has no interest in coming out of his shell.